Cameron's a lizard, Miliband's a robot, Winston Churchill would kill his own mother. Political insults aren't new
Charlie Brooker, as is his way, spent several paragraphs explaining in considerable detail that David Cameron, the Prime Minister, is in fact a large venomous lizard which eats horses. Graeme Archer described this as symptomatic of "the tragedy of the modern Left": a tendency to demonise and dehumanise its opponents.
Tom Chivers, Daily Telegraph, 17 October 2011

Why unpaid internships are a good thing – they help the young get a foot in the door
We have a job that needs doing that we cannot get our clients to pay us for and, in the current climate, we cannot afford to pay an experienced person to do it. The work we want doing would involve supervision by a senior manager and would involve learning a set of skills that is very saleable in the labour market. Now, if we accept the argument that unpaid internships are wrong then this work will go undone, to the minor detriment of our business, and nobody will get that valuable experience. Who benefits from that?
Rob Killick, City AM, 17 October 2011

After the Riots: what makes a city?
The uncomfortable truth (for some) is the one told by Jane Jacobs, New York community campaigner back in the early 1960s: that local authorities cannot construct a ‘sense of community’.
Michael Owens, Independent, 17 October 2011

Surely by now we’ve outgrown the soul?
Although no branch of scientific thought has all the answers, we have known for some time that there is no theoretical need to look outside of the human body for a explanation of the many and varied phenomena that we collectively refer to as ‘consciousness’.
Martha Robinson, Independent, 16 October 2011

Why Greeks should be unhappy about the government’s ‘happiness’ agenda
One day you might find yourself on the government sanctioned path to happiness, whether you like it or not.
Nikos Sotirakopoulos, Independent, 16 October 2011

What’s wrong with students stripping for cash?
Is it OK for hard-up students to consider taking their clothes off as a way of paying their university tuition fees? The mere suggestion that they could earn a ‘good wage’ doing so by John Specht, UK vice president of the Spearmint Rhino chain of gentlemen’s clubs, has caused controversy
Abigail Ross-Jackson, Independent, 14 October 2011

Mr Referendum faces a vote he does not want
Freedom of speech is not within the gift of the First Minster to stay or allow. Its antecedents go back to the Bill of Rights (1689), of which Rangers fans have been known to chant – in a non-sectarian way, of course, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), of which there has been slightly less celebration on the terracings, and, of course, currently under the European Convention of Human Rights.
Michael Kelly, Scotsman, 13 October 2011

Women at Work: Could accepting progress lead to greater progress?
Looking through the prism of historical gender inequity might be a mistake that leads women to create the vision of past problems that no longer affect us.
NIna Powell, Independent, 12 October 2011

The end is nigh: is survival all we can hope for?
At Chris Huhne’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, the survival of the Earth trumps all other arguments
James Woudhuysen, Independent, 11 October 2011

Is monogamy making us miserable?
Marriage can be tough. But one expert believes it doesn’t have to be – that our ‘one mate for life’ rule is unrealistic, unnecessary, even unnatural. We dare to ask if, perhaps, he has a point.
John Preston, Daily Telegraph, 10 October 2011